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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






2. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






3. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






4. Triple conjunction Mars






5. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






6. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






7. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






8. Transit of Venus on June 11.






9. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






10. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






11. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






12. Triple conjunction Mars






13. December 10






14. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






15. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






16. Transit of Mercury.






17. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






18. Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.






19. Last year which can be represented using the File Allocation Table date format.






20. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






21. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






22. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






23. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






24. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






25. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






26. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






27. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






28. Triple conjunction Mars






29. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






30. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






31. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






32. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






33. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






34. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






35. Triple conjunction Mars






36. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






37. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






38. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






39. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






40. The M1 Abrams will be retired from service.






41. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






42. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






43. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






44. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






45. March 17






46. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






47. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






48. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






49. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






50. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.